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AMD’s marketing materials pitted the RX 570 against the older R7 370 and GTX 960, playing up the upgrade angle. We’re not going to bother with that here. Frankly, the existing RX 470 already stomped all over the R7 370 due to its move from the older 28nm manufacturing process to cutting-edge 14nm GPU technology, and it’s not worth revisiting here. The Radeon RX 570 is definitely a worthwhile upgrade from that card. Likewise, the existing RX 470 also crushed Nvidia’s budget-focused $140 GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, so we declined to re-run those tests as well.

Time for the fun stuff.

The Division

Let’s start with The Division, a gorgeous third-person shooter/RPG that mixes elements of Destiny and Gears of War. It uses Ubisoft’s new Snowdrop engine, and we test in DirectX 11 mode, which offers more consistent results.

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With Ultra settings enabled, the Aorus Radeon RX 570 flirts with the hallowed 60 frames-per-second standard at 1080p resolution, while still turning in a respectable 40 fps-plus rate at 1440p. (Though it’s not shown here, turning the graphics down to High nearly doubles the results.) It’s a mere 3.36 percent faster than the overclocked XFX RX 470, which itself is neck-and-neck with the non-overclocked EVGA GTX 1060 3GB. Okay.